Monday - Rob Cowan with Sandi Toksvig
With Rob Cowan. Includes CD of the Week: Incarnation - Christmas Music; Artist of the Week: Marc Minkowski; Broadcaster Sandi Toksvig; Rob's Essential Choice: Dvorak: Symphony No 6.
Rob Cowan's guest this week is writer, presenter and comedian, Sandi Toksvig.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Incarnation ? Christmas music ancient and modern, from the Gabrieli Consort and Paul McCreesh: SIGNUM, SIGCD346. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.
10am
Artist of the Week: Marc Minkowski.
10.30am
Rob's guest this week is the writer, presenter and comedian, Sandi Toksvig. Sandi is a familiar voice for 大象传媒 Radio 4 listeners as the chair of The News Quiz and host of the travel programme Excess Baggage. She presents 1001 Things You Should Know for Channel 4, was team captain on Call My Bluff for many years, and has appeared on other panel shows including Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Mock the Week, and QI. She has been a columnist for Good Housekeeping magazine for more than twenty years and for seven years wrote every week in The Sunday Telegraph. Her latest book on manners, Peas and Queues, was published earlier this year.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice:
Dvorak
Symphony No. 6
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.
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Music Played
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Dmitri Kabalevsky
The Comedians, Op. 26: Galop
Orchestra: RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Kondrashin.- RCA.
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Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Ruslan and Ludmila: Overture
Orchestra: Philharmonia. Conductor: Constantin Silvestri.- EMI.
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Herbert Howells
Cortege, from Pageantry
Ensemble: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Major Peter Parkes.- Signum.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Slavonic Rhapsody in D, Op. 45 No. 1
Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Bohumil Gregor.- Supraphon.
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anon
Who's Marching?
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George Frideric Handel
Un pensiero voli in ciel (Il delirio amoroso)
Singer: Magdalena Ko啪en谩. Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.- Archiv.
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Percy Grainger
Hill Song No 2
Ensemble: Eastman Wind Ensemble. Conductor: Frederick Fennell.- Mercury Living Presence.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Prelude in B minor, Op 32 no.10
Performer: Howard Shelley.- Hyperion.
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 94 in G 'Surprise'
Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenobles. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.- Naive.
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Gustav Holst
In the Bleak Midwinter
Performer: Handel and Haydn Society. Performer: Harry Christophers (conductor).- CORO.
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Paul Dukas
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski.- Disney.
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Borge
A Mozart Opera
Singer: Victor Borge.- Sony.
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Emil Montia
Colindita
Performer: Angela Gheorghiou (soprano). Performer: Orchestra Nationyala Radio Tiberiu.- MEDIA PRO MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Symphony No. 6 in D, Op. 60
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Istv谩n Kert茅sz.- Decca.
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Alessandro Scarlatti
7 Sonatas from Veintiseis Sonatas Ineditas para clave; nos 3 (K541) and 4 (K533)
Performer: Sandro Russo (piano).- MUSICAL CONCEPTS.
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Borodin (arr. Skip Martin)
Swingin' with Prince Igor; Polovtsian Dance One
Performer: Skip Martin's All-Star Jazz Band. Performer: Skip Martin (conductor).- FLARE.
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